- Area: 226 m²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: IPM Building spol. s r.o.
Prague: The Latest Architecture and News
Family House / Atelier K2
The Origami Project / Qarta Architektura
Business School Atrium Extension / IO Studio
Cafe. Bistro. Bakery Zahorsky / JRA Jarousek.Rochova.Architekti
John Hejduk's Jan Palach Memorial Opens in Prague
For the first time in history, a John Hejduk structure has been permanently installed in a public space. The American architect's Jan Palach Memorial has officially opened last week at Jan Palach Square (formerly Red Army Square) on the Alšovo Riverbank in Prague after 25 years in the making.
"The work, entitled House of the Suicide and House of the Mother of the Suicide, which was originally built in Atlanta in 1990, then Prague in 1991, honors the Czech dissident Jan Palach, whose self-immolation in protest of the Soviet invasion of 1968 served as a galvanizing force against the communist government in Czechoslovakia. A plaque at the base of the monument displays the poem The Funeral of Jan Palach, by former School of Architecture Professor David Shapiro," says The Cooper Union.
Multipurpose Hall Forum Karlín / A8000
Nejen Bistro / mar.s architects
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Architects: mar.s architects
- Area: 152 m²
- Year: 2015
PVA EXPO Prague Congress Hall / Progres Architekti
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Architects: Progres Architekti
- Area: 1610 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Armstrong Flooring, Ideal Standard
Architecture Week Prague 2015
The 9th International Festival of Architecture and Urbanism Architecture Week Prague 2015 will take place in the Convent of St. George at the Prague Castle and other locations in Prague from August 17 to October 18, 2015. It is organized by the company Czech Architecture Week in cooperation with the Prague Castle Administration. The festival will again be held under the patronage of the Czech President, Mr. Miloš Zeman.
The exhibition Heritage of My Homeland, the main exposition of this year´s festival, will present not only the greatest architectural treasures of all regions, but also their culture, art and objects characteristic for individual regions.
Proti Proudu Bistro / Mimosa architekti
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Architects: Mimosa architekti
- Year: 2015
Gran Fierro / Formafatal
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Architects: Formafatal
- Area: 250 m²
- Year: 2015
The Life Of Dalibor Vesely: Teacher, Philosopher, Acclaimed Academic
Dalibor Vesely, a celebrated architectural historian, philosopher and teacher, died this week in London aged 79. Over the course of his teaching career, which spanned five decades, he tutored a number of the world’s leading architects and thinkers from Daniel Libeskind, Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Robin Evans, to Mohsen Mostafavi and David Leatherbarrow.
Vesely was born in Prague in 1934, five years before the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Following World War II, he studied engineering, architecture, art history and philosophy in Prague, Munich, Paris and Heidelberg. He was awarded his doctorate from Charles University (Prague) having been taught and supervised by Josef Havlicek, Karel Honzik, and Jaroslav Fragner. Although later he would be tutored by James Stirling, it was the philosopher of phenomenology Jan Patočka who, in his own words, “contributed more than anyone else to [his] overall intellectual orientation and to the articulation of some of the critical topics” explored in his seminal book, Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation, published in 2004.
Jiřičná, Meier And Pawson Appointed To Design Residential Development Near Prague
Three practices have been appointed to the design team for Oaks Prague, a new rural residential development located in the commune of Popivičky, close to the city of Prague. John Pawson, Richard Meier + Partners and Eva Jiřičná with AI-Design have drawn up design proposals for key buildings for the scheme, which is managed by the Czech development company Arendon. In November last year, ten practices were shortlisted in a competition to design housing schemes for the €400 million, 220-home "residential and lifestyle development" in Popivičky.
The entire development, which has previously been master-planned by EDSA assisted by Chapman Taylor and John Thompson & Partners, "responds to the form, layout and vernacular of the surrounding Czech villages."
Villa Pruhonice / Jestico + Whiles
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Architects: Jestico + Whiles
- Area: 560 m²
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Sto, ACTUAL FENSTER TÜREN SONNENSCHUTZ
Ten Practices Selected to Design €400 Million "Oaks Prague" Scheme
The Czech Republic-based Arendon Development Company has selected seven British practices and three Czech practices to work together on Oaks Prague, a new €400 million, 220-home "residential and lifestyle development" 20 kilometres South-East of Prague within the commune of Popivičky.
Selected through a competition organized by Malcolm Reading Consultants, the ten practices will join the team of Edward Durell Stone Jr and Associates, who masterplanned the development to include a golf club, hotel and spa at its centre, and John Thompson & Partners, who developed a pattern book and style guide for Oaks Prague.
Read on after the break for the full list of selected architects
A1 House / A1Architects
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Architects: A1Architects
- Area: 220 m²
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: Vittore s.r.o., Hašek stavby, Vojtěch Bilišič, Krobot Interiéry, Ateliér Mánes, +1
Attic Loft Reconstruction / B² Architecture
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Architects: B² Architecture
- Area: 220 m²
- Year: 2013